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Robert Swindells rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk
Thu May 22 09:04:00 2003


Steve Krueger wrote:
>I joined this list only a short time ago and have seen little traffic 
>here.  I did read through the archives from the last year.

>I think I can help.  I wrote the document that became the SSDN and later 
>the SSDN2.  Oh, and I originally wrote them using TeX.  I am still at 
>TI, and I am an unrepentant pack rat.  Therefore, I still have quite a 
>lot of the hardware specs and other design documentation.  Since I 
>worked on the microcode, I even have cross-referenced printouts of the 
>microcode source, although I'm afraid the latest I have is still quite 
>old, about 207.  That predates the Hummingbird processor (Explorer II) 
>and the Elroy instruction set redesign, called VM2 in the SSDN2.  I 
>thought I might have a tape with some version of the microcode sources, 
>the microcode tools or the cold-loader, but I haven't found any of that 
>yet in my searching.

Have you got any documentation on the hash function used to store
entries in the PHT ? The SSDN2 doesn't describe the algorithm itself.

At the moment the exploiter emulator just does a linear search. It
works, but it would be good to use the real thing.

Robert Swindells